{"id":221064,"date":"2024-04-02T16:31:30","date_gmt":"2024-04-02T20:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=221064"},"modified":"2024-04-02T16:31:30","modified_gmt":"2024-04-02T20:31:30","slug":"hard-proof-israel-now-calculatedly-waging-genocidal-war-of-starvation-against-palestinians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=221064","title":{"rendered":"

HARD PROOF: Israel Now Calculatedly Waging Genocidal War Of Starvation Against Palestinians<\/b><\/h2>"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Group Of Foreign Aid Workers Killed By Israeli Strike On Convoy, Netanyahu Expresses Regret<\/h1>\n

ZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n

On Monday an Israeli airstrike on the central Gaza town of of Deir al-Balah\u00a0killed seven international aid workers<\/strong>\u00a0with World Central Kitchen, resulting in the well-known charity announcing Tuesday that it must suspend operations to deliver food aid to Gaza.<\/p>\n

Footage confirming their deaths is driving international outrage and again ramping up the pressure on Israel. The\u00a0Associated Press<\/em><\/a>\u00a0writes Tuesday, “Footage showed the bodies, several wearing protective gear with the charity\u2019s logo, at a hospital in the central Gaza town of Deir al-Balah.” The report details, “Those killed include three British nationals, an Australian, a Polish national, an American-Canadian dual citizen and a Palestinian<\/strong>, according to hospital records.”<\/p>\n

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Australian national Lalzawmi “Zomi” Frankcom (left) was among those confirmed killed – World Central Kitchen\/X<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The well-known charity was founded in 2010 by Spanish American chef and restaurateur Jos\u00e9 Andr\u00e9s, and has been among many world charities and NGOs embedded in Gaza amid the ongoing humanitarian catastrophe.<\/p>\n

World Central Kitchen CEO Erin Gore has said in a fresh\u00a0statement<\/a>:\u00a0“This is not only an attack against WCK, this is an attack on humanitarian organizations showing up in the most dire of situations where food is being used as a weapon of war.”<\/p>\n

“This is unforgivable,”<\/strong>\u00a0Gore added. The statement\u00a0underscored that<\/a>\u00a0the team\u00a0“was traveling in a deconflicted zone in two armored cars branded with the WCK logo and a soft skin vehicle.”\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

What makes this tragedy look even worse for Israel is that it was a targeted drone strike on a convoy operated by the international charity. Israel’s\u00a0Haaretz<\/em><\/a>\u00a0reports that the attack was ostensibly targeting a Hamas member who wasn’t there. It was\u00a0“launched because of suspicion that a terrorist was travelling with the convoy.”<\/strong>\u00a0What’s more is that the report indicates the convoy was\u00a0bombed three times<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressed regret in a Tuesday statement, and amid growing pressure from the press and Western governments, acknowledging his military had conducted the\u00a0“unintended strike” on “innocent people in the Gaza Strip.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Unfortunately, in the past day,\u00a0there was a tragic incident of an unintentional hit<\/strong>\u00a0by our forces on innocent people in the Gaza Strip.\u00a0It happens during war<\/strong>. We are in touch with governments, and we\u2019ll do everything so this doesn\u2019t happen again,” his full statement said, though without mentioning\u00a0World Central Kitchen by name.<\/p>\n

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World Central Kitchen vehicle that was hit in an Israeli strike on Monday in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza. EPA-EFE\/Shutterstock<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Cyprus has said that as a result of the incident and the charity’s forced shuttering of operations, recently arrived ships have turned back while loaded with some\u00a0240 tons of undelivered aid.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the US State Department has said that\u00a0famine is likely already present in parts of Gaza<\/strong>. A State Dept. official told Reuters. “While we can say with confidence that famine is a significant risk in the south and center but not present, in the north, it is both a risk and quite possibly is present in at least some areas.”<\/p>\n